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HOUG/D/C/3/5/5
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Letter from Mary Frances Wilberforce to Lord Houghton
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- 17 Jun. [1864-1865?] (Creation)
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2 docs (2 ff. and 2 ff.)
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St Germain en Laye, près Paris. - Encloses statement by her brother-in-law concerning his friend Catharine Heron, who has great literary talent; asks if Houghton can secure her a pension. Enclosed statement by Henry William Wilberforce about Miss Heron's needy circumstances; she is the daughter of a doctor; self-educated teacher, and lived and wrote in Belgium following illness; she is now poor and unwell; has small income from donations collected by a Miss Graham and a £10 pension from the Almonry, but a literary pension would ease her plight.